Twitter user Eric said it best in a very well thought out letter written to the Ghosts dev team:

“A huge component of gun selection in Competitive Call of Duty revolves around Balance. Pre-update, the Mtar has been the most popular gun because it is considered “Good” in the three main ranges (Close Range, Mid Range, and Long Range). The Vector was also a popular option because due to its’ decent rate of fire and its’ strong damage. This made the vector good at close range, great at mid-range, and poor at long range (Too much recoil to be utilized long range). This meta, choosing between a gun that gives you an advantage at range while sacrificing damage up close and vice versa, was sufficient for competitive cod at this point. That meta is now essentially gone.”

“The patch has basically eliminated these two guns as options and is forcing players to only use Bizons.”

You can read the full list of feedback notes here, including a number of examples, which multiplayer designers at Infinity Ward have taken note of:

@CrsMuddawg I have Bizon changes in test. Thank you for the detailed feedback

Anybody else feel like COD is just throwing stuff at the wall at this point to try to keep a stale game going?

MeisseN

At this point? No they’ve been doing this since ’09

thebulky1cometh

Haha good point, but I mean, this is getting absurd. Voice packs, character skins, dog skins,camos, nerfs, buffs, free camos…on Xbox first, available to both immediately, never coming to PC…all on top of the regular DLC maps and weapons. I can’t keep this crap straight. You must admit- they’ve never pimped themselves out this bad before.

MeisseN

Yeah. What’s the point of creating DLC skins for others to see (or for you through Killcams after you are killed xD). They’ve already saved a lot of work on announcer voice by creating only 2 factions, and the Snoop Dogg pack is just hilariously stupid. I can make a pack by myself at home in one day with a recorder and some post audio processing. And it gon’ be free, dawg *record scratches*.

Nathan Longardner

They have no idea what they are doing.

thebigmack7

They need to patch the mother effing dogs man.Those things take waaaay too many bullets.

I’m sorry, but when I hear competitive play and Call of Duty in the same discussion as a serious topic I laugh. Right because it takes a crazy amount of skill to find areas of its tiny and/or one sided maps to camp till kill streaks are reached and the true skill can begin. What a joke. BWAHAHAHAHA!

roland0811

Awesome. Glad I gave this franchise up after Modern-WTFery 2.

Emre

give shotgun slight buff. In range and reduced hipfire.

awkenney

The Bizon was certainly OP after the patch. It was on par with the MTAR before the patch, so there was really no reason to adjust it at all.